KARAK: The local office-bearers of different political parties of Banda Daud Shah tehsil have demanded reconstruction of the main Banda-Karak road, which is in bad shape, and early start of work on the girls’ degree college in the tehsil.

The political activists were speaking at a meeting at Teri here on Sunday. Pakhtunkhawa Milli Awami Party district general secretary Rafi Khattak, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz tehsil leader Abdullah Shah and Pashtun Qaumi Tehrik leader Imtiaz were among those who spoke on the occasion.

The participants said the main road between the district headquarters and tehsil headquarters of Banda Daud Shah was in dilapidated condition since long.

They complained that the huge revenue generated from the oil and gas reserves explored on the soil of Banda Daud Shah had been utilised by the former public representatives at the development of other areas of the district and the basic problems of the oil and gas-rich tehsil were still unresolved.

The political activists demanded that link roads in the tehsil should also be reconstructed without delay as the government had released about Rs700 million for development of the district in the current financial year.

They said that there was no girls’ college in the area and girls left education after matriculation as poor parents could not afford to send them to other areas for getting higher education.

The elders claimed that the last ANP government in the province had approved a girls’ degree college in Banda Daud Shah after the name of Khudai Khidmatgar woman Alaf Jana Khattak, but so far no practical work had been started on it.

They also demanded utilisation of social sector funds in the shape of production bonus of the oil and gas companies, which has been lying unused for last many months due to differences among elected representatives, on the uplift of the backward Banda Daud Shah.

The meeting rejected the proposal to utilise the production bonus on the uplift of the entire district equally.